Mozambique

(MISA/IFEX) – On 15 April 2009, MISA-Mozambique denounced the intimidation of two radio journalists in the northern province of Niassa, one of whom was illegally detained by the police. Felismino Jamissone is a producer for a community radio station in the Niassa district of Mecanhelas. He produces a programme on human rights, which has frequently […]

(MISA/IFEX) – MISA-Mozambique has received reports that Tete provincial governor, Ildefonso Muananthat, has threatened journalist Bernardo Carlos with death in apparent anger over his reporting. Carlos is a journalist with the daily publication “Noticias”. Governor Muananthat threatened Carlos on 16 and 17 March 2009 while touring the Mágoè district in his province. While addressing a […]

(MISA/IFEX) – MISA-Mozambican has condemned the physical attacks on journalists that took place on 20 March 2009 in the Port city of Beira. The journalists were attacked by supporters of Renamo, the main opposition party, while covering a political gathering of defectors from Renamo who have since launched a rival opposition party called Democratic Movement […]

(MISA/IFEX) – The Mozambican government “firmly and vehemently condemns all acts that attack press freedom,” declared Deputy Education Minister Luis Covane on 12 March 2009, Mozambique’s news agency AIM reports. Covane was representing the government at the launch of the “Annual Report on the State of Press Freedom in Mozambique”, produced by MISA’s Mozambican chapter. […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Contrary to initial claims by the Mozambican police, Aníbal António dos Santos Junior, “Anibalzinho”, the convicted killer of journalist Carlos Cardoso, was not recaptured after escaping from prison for the third time on 7 December 2008 and is still on the run. “We are puzzled and worried,” Reporters Without Borders said. “How can […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has voiced relief at the re-arrest on 8 December 2008 of the killer of journalist Carlos Cardoso, 36 hours after he made his third escape from Maputo’s high security prison. Anibal Antonio dos Santos Junior, “Anibalzinho”, is serving a 30-year-sentence for the November 2000 murder of the investigative journalist, who […]

(MISA/IFEX) – According to a report in the 17 October 2008 daily issue of “Noticias”, two journalists based in Beira, Mozambique’s second largest city, were threatened on 15 October by leaders of the opposition political party, Renamo. The two journalists, Moisés Saela and Francisco Raiva, work for Radio Mozambique and Stv, a local independent Mozambican […]

(MISA/IFEX) – Three journalists working for “Zambeze” newspaper, an independent publication, charged for allegedly defaming the Prime Minister of Mozambique, Luísa Diogo, and of threatening state security, have been sentenced to 6 months in prison, converted to a monetary fine of 30 Mozambican Meticais (US$1.20). The ruling was made on 29 August 2008. The court […]

(MISA/IFEX) – On Monday 21 July 2008, the 3rd Section of the Maputo Judicial Court postponed the trial of three “Zambeze” journalists. “Zambeze” is one of the biggest independent weeklies in Mozambique. The three are accused of threatening state security, after they wrote an article in which they questioned whether the Prime Minister of Mozambique, […]

Freedom of the Press 2007: Mozambique

(MISA/IFEX) – The Mozambican chapter of the regional press freedom body MISA has denounced a physical assault by a leading sports figure against a photojournalist. According to a press release from the Sofala provincial nucleus of MISA Mozambique, the incident happened on a football field in the central city of Beira on 21 July 2007, […]

(MISA/IFEX) – The Mozambican chapter of MISA welcomes the decision by the Supreme Court to reject the appeals made by the six men who were found guilty in January 2003 of the murder of the country’s top investigative reporter, Carlos Cardoso. Three of the six – Vicente Ramaya, and the brothers Momade Assife Abdul Satar […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 16 February 2007 CPJ press release: In Mozambique, court upholds conviction of Carlos Cardoso’s killers New York, February 16, 2007 – The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes this week’s ruling by a Mozambican court to reject the appeals of six hired killers of leading investigative journalist Carlos Cardoso. Cardoso […]

(MISA/IFEX) – The first phase of reviewing Mozambique’s 1991 press law, long regarded as one of the most enlightened pieces of media legislation in the world, concluded on 15 September 2006, announced the director of the government press office (GABINFO), Felisberto Tinga. Tinga said that GABINFO had submitted the draft amendments to the office of […]

(MISA/IFEX) – Editor Sebastiao Canjera, news editor Joao Mascarenhas, and reporter Pateque Francisco, of the community newspaper “Mabarwe”, all of whom had been detained on criminal libel charges since 3 May 2006, were released on 10 May. The journalists were jailed on the orders of the Manica provincial deputy attorney, Jose Abede, and charged with […]

(MISA/IFEX) – The Mozambican public prosecutor’s office has charged businessman Nyimpine Chissano, eldest son of former President Joaquim Chissano, in the November 2000 murder of Mozambique’s top investigative journalist, Carlos Cardoso. A legal source contacted by the Mozambique News Agency (AIM) confirmed that the charge sheet was delivered to the Maputo City Court about two […]